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title: Intimate friends went slowly down from the service to Ivy Lodge, the… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Intimate friends went slowly down from the service to Ivy Lodge, the Stanleys’ pleasant home, where Miss Russell had been spending the vacation days and where she died. Who acts: Intimate friends, Miss. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral S
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 3

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Intimate friends went slowly down from the service to Ivy Lodge, the Stanleys’ pleasant home, where Miss Russell had been spending the vacation days and where she died.

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**Who acts:** Intimate friends, Miss · **What happens:** go, spend, die · **To what, where:** Ivy Lodge, service

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Intimate friends, Miss), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:5:3
# text = Intimate friends went slowly down from the service to Ivy Lodge, the Stanleys’ pleasant home, where Miss Russell had been spending the vacation days and where she died.
1	Intimate	intimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Ivy	Ivy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Lodge	Lodge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Stanleys	Stanley	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
20	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	Russell	Russell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux	_	_
24	spending	spend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	vacation	vacation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Intimate friends |  | Ivy Lodge | the service |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from service=Initial\_Location to lodge=Destination |
| 2 | **spend** | past · perfect · progressive | Miss |  |  |  | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** | past | Miss |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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